Saturday, May 02, 2015

It bears repeating what other articles stressed. Yemen is Obama's war - another atrocity on his rap sheet affecting an entire country and its 25 million people in dire need of humanitarian aid to survive.

Saudis and rogue regional allies are convenient US proxies - carrying out orders from Washington. They'd never attack another Arab country without America's OK, urging and support.

Washington and Riyadh imposed air and sea blockade on Yemen - a blatantly illegal act on top of US planned and orchestrated naked aggression against an independent country posing no threat to others.

Russia called for an immediate ceasefire, an urgency to address humanitarian crisis conditions and dialogue among all sides to end fighting.

During a Friday emergency closed-door Security Council session on Yemen it called, Washington blocked its initiative.

Obama launched war. He deplores peace. He wants conflict escalated.

He wants blockade conditions maintained. He wants Yemenis starved to death or perishing from untreated wounds.

He wants no consideration whatever given to addressing essential to life humanitarian needs.

"If you can't agree to a (responsible) motherhood and apple pie statement, what can you agree on?"

Churkin pointed fingers at Washington adding:

"Clearly, they need to feel their responsibility since they are supporting the bombing of the coalition, the responsibility of the humanitarian consequences."

Saudi-led airstrikes and blockade are lawless. No Security Council resolution authorized them.

"It is very clear from resolution 2216 that it did not authorize the use of military force," Churkin explained.

"Some colleagues were saying that the Saudi-led coalition is trying to make sure that resolution 2216 is implemented. This is not the case. Their action is completely outside the resolution."

Among other provisions, it banned supplying Houthis with weapons. It did nothing to stop Washington and Riyadh from arming forces fighting them - including thousands Saudi recruited takfiri terrorists.

On Thursday, an ineffective UN statement without teeth "call(ed) on all parties to ensure that humanitarian agencies and their partners have safe and reliable access to bring aid workers and supplies into Yemen and to deliver aid to millions of people in need."

"All airports are closed to civilian traffic - some have come under direct attack - and naval shipments are being delayed."

"Yemen's health, water and sanitation systems and telecommunications services are on the brink of collapse."

Yemen faces an acute shortage of food, clean water, medical supplies and other essentials to life.